CATALOGUE

JULY 5 - JULY 16

MILLY DENT x EVI O / HELEN EARL x INGRID BOWEN / AGATHA PUPAHER x JOANNA COLE

This July Saint Cloche presents COMMON GROUND - The concept will be explored by 3 pairs of Painters and ceramicists.

Common Ground – where a fresh approach to curating will produce a show of ceramic art that owes a major debt to painting.

Exploring the nature of shared ideas and sources of inspiration, Common Ground presents the work of 3 painters, each paired with a ceramicist of their choice selected to collaborate on ideas based on common values and preoccupations.

In simple terms this collaboration might mean the ceramic artist has created a new range of forms, which will then be decorated by the painter. But how each pair of artists chooses to work together is up to them. What we anticipate is that, in exploring the common ground between them the artists will develop ideas that push the boundaries of their established art practices, and we’re looking forward to seeing some surprising and exciting new artworks and approaches as a result.

As all the artists selected for Common Ground have been influenced and inspired by the natural world, the environment will form a unifying theme for the show, creating an exhibition that will have an element of ‘green’ all round.

Given that nature will be at the heart of everything, we’re looking forward to seeing a range of interesting dialogues developing between the works, and a cohesive show brimming with comparisons and contrasts, and alive with new ideas.

COMMON GROUND FEATURES THE WORK OF: HELEN EARL x INGRID BOWENMILLY DENT x EVI OAGATHA PUPAHER x JOANNA COLE

COMMON GROUND CURATED BY KITTY CLARK

Milly Dent x Evi O

Milly Dent is a ceramic designer whose work explores the material of porcelain through uniquely handcrafted, exclusive ceramic goods. Having recently completed an artist residency in Arita, the birthplace of porcelain in Japan, Milly further explores the material by using both traditional and contemporary ways of making.   Evi O is an award-winning book designer and self-taught artist, most renowned for her abstract paintings. She works from her design studio in Surry Hills, Sydney. With a curious eye and mind, she is constantly exploring and observing her surroundings. To her, art practise is personal, honest and happy.   Collaborative Statement

Milly and Evi are both Sydney based designers and artists, who met at Saint Cloche. Working together for the brief ‘Common Ground’, they explored forms from nature, with the forms quite literally being cast from moulds made from eggplants–both artists’ favourite vegetable–creating sets of functional tray, cups and vases/jugs. The surface features a combination of their aesthetic, Milly Dent’s signature marbling and Evi O’s abstract shapes and colours.

Evi O Eggplant (Dark)Acrylic on board

Timber Frame 20x20cm

$485

Evi O Eggplant (Light)Acrylic on board

Timber Frame 20x20cm

$485

Milly Dent x Evi O Nasa Bud Vases - Marbled

Porcelain 10x3x4cm $70 each

Milly Dent x Evi O Brinjal Cups - Lucid

Porcelain 9x8x7cm

$120 each

Milly Dent x Evi O Lilek Platter - Lucid

48x22cm $240

Milly Dent x Evi O Nasa Bud Vases - Lucid

Porcelain 10x3x4cm $70 each

Milly Dent x Evi O Brinjal Cups - Marbled

Porcelain 9x8x7cm

$120 each

Milly Dent x Evi O Brinjal Cups - Lucid

Porcelain 9x8x7cm

$120 each

HELEN EARL X INGRID BOWEN

Helen Earl

Helen’s artwork is informed by personal observations of being in a particular environment and subsequent research of relevant cultural, historic and scientific narratives. Her work draws on ideas of associations between the domestic space and the natural world. Her artworks often combine ceramics with found, existent objects as an integral par of the story.

Ingrid Bowen

Ingrid is a Sydney based artist working in traditional watercolour and contemporary mixed media techniques exploring intrinsic responses to landscape. Drawing details in and out of focus from observations and recollections, her narrative has developed to examine innate connections to terrain and storylines.

Collaborative Statement

Helen and Ingrid developed experiential works emerging from the sensory experience of spending time in Helen’s garden and studio. Literally and figuratively a common ground was found wandering and foraging amongst the understory of trees in Helen’s large garden. The immersion in this project has cultivated both a friendship and a body of works that mutually expresses their shared expression of the beauty of the natural world.

Ingrid Bowen Reforested

Timber Frame Mixed media

43x43cm $880

Helen Earl x Ingrid Bowen Tree Vases 1,2,3

Wheel thrown, inlaid & glazed porcelain 15x9cm approx

$290

Helen Earl Leafy Green SpadeGlazed porcelain &

casuarina wood 47x15cm

$295

Helen Earl 5 Egg, Nest & Branch Ladel

Porcelain, stoneware & casuarina wood

40x9x4 $320

Helen Earl Small Watercolour Bowl

Glazed porcelain 7.5x10.5cm

$65

Helen Earl Tall Grass Seed VaseWheel thrown, inlaid &

glazed porcelain 19.5x7cm

$320

Helen Earl Small Grass Seed

Wheel thrown, inlaid & glazed porcelain

12.5x9cm $260

Helen Earl Garden Ladle

Glazed porcelain & Driftwood 42x9 & 30x9 Large $240 Small $180

Helen Earl Feather Pod Dish

Slipcast, hand drawn glazed decoration

12.x7.5cm $65

Helen Earl Medium Grass Seed Vase

Wheel thrown, inlaid & glazed porcelain 13.5x9cm

$290

Helen Earl Round Watercolour Vase

Glazed porcelain 13x19cm

$240

Helen Earl Dappled Spade

Glazed porcelain & casuarina wood

50x15cm $320

Ingrid Bowen Dappled 1

Mixed media Timber Frame

27x27cm $660

Ingrid Bowen Dappled 2

Mixed media TImber Frame

27x27cm $660

Helen Earl x Ingrid Bowen Tree Vessel 1, 2 & 3

Wheel thrown, inlaid & glazed porcelain 10x10cm approx

$240 each

Helen Earl Linden Leaf Wall Sculpture

Carved, glazed porcelain 20x26x1.5cm

$240

Helen Earl Seed Pod Wall Sculpture

Dry glazed stoneware 26x15.5x5cm

$290

Helen Earl Flannel Flower Leaf Wall Sculpture

Dry glazed stoneware 35x24x14cm

$320

Helen Earl Branch Wall Sculpture

Glazed stoneware 32x17x6cm

$290

Helen Earl Feather Wall SculptureCarved, glazed porcelain

28x5x5x1.5cm $220

Helen Earl Green Tea Bowl 1, 2 & 3

Glazed porcelain 9x10cm approx

$65 each

Helen Earl Medium Watercolour

BowlGlazed porcelain

8.5x12.5cm $85

Helen Earl Pod Dishes

Slipcast, handrawn glazed decoration 12x7.5cm $65 each

Helen Earl Ginko Leaves

Hand carved raku clay 5x6cm approx

$25 each

Helen Earl Watercolour Vases

Gazed porcelain 10.5x8cm $145 each

Helen Earl Tall Watercolour Vase

Glazed porcelain 12.5x8.5cm

$190

Helen Earl Garden Ladle Green Twisted

HandleGlazed porcelain & root wood

34x8.5x3.5cm $240

Helen Earl Small Grass Seed

Wheel thrown, inlaid & glazed porcelain

12.5x9cm $260

Helen Earl Tree Spoons

Glazed porcelain Various sizes

$30 each

Helen Earl x Ingrid Bowen Tiny Earth PotsStoneware, glaze

5x7cm $45 each

Helen Earl x Ingrid Bowen Small Earth PotsStoneware, glaze

7x9cm $55 each

Agatha Pupaher x Joanna Cole

Agatha Pupaher has been a working ceramicist and teacher of ceramics for the last five years. Founder of Sydney Ceramics Studio in St Peters, Pupaher has been exhibiting works in group exhibitions since 2013 including Damien Minton Gallery, Dickerson Gallery, the Royal Botanic Gardens and the "Little Things" annual exhibition at Saint Cloche.

Joanna Cole is an emerging landscape painter living and working in Sydney. Cole had previously exhibited in group shows in South Australia following a Degree in Visual Communication at the University of South Australia in 1997. Returning to study a Masters of Art at UNSW in 2014, Cole travelled to Newcastle and Hill End for painting workshops with Alan Jones and Luke Scribberas in 2014 and 2015 respectively. She took on a tenancy at the Bondi Art Studio in 2016 leading to a successful solo exhibition of landscape paintings at Saint Cloche in June 2017.

Collaborative Statement

A mutual love for Bondi Beach and an appreciation of the architectural form of Bondi Pavillion was the foundation for Joanna Cole and Agatha Pupaher’s creative exploration of the concept of ‘Common Ground.’ Both Cole and Pupaher met at the Bondi Pavillion Pottery Studio late 2016. As they began to explore the ways in which they were able to merge their creative practices, some key themes emerged. They found themselves inspired by the subtlety and randomness of their unexpected creations. Inspiration has been drawn from the ceramic works of John Olsen in relation to rich colour palettes and the thematic note of green can be traced through the depiction of basalt tree leaves on the vessels.

Joanna Cole Paths to the Pavillion

Oil on canvas Timber Frame

20x20cm $320

Joanna Cole Pavillion Common Trees

Oil on Canvas Timber Frame

20x20cm $320

Agatha Pupaher x Joanna Cole Arches Pot - basalt

Thrown blended red stoneware, underglaze, ground basalt, glaze

11x9x9cm $95

Agatha Pupaher x Joanna Cole Common Trees Vessel - Basalt

Thrown white stoneware, underglaze, ground basalt, glaze

75x90x7m $45

Agatha Pupaher x Joanna Cole Common Trees Vessel -

Ground BasaltThrown white stoneware,

underglaze, ground basalt, glaze 10x7x3cm

$45

Agatha Pupaher x Joanna Cole Arches Vessel - River Sand

Thrown blended red stoneware, underglaze, river sand, glaze

10x10x9cm $90

Agatha Pupaher x Joanna Cole Arches Mini Vessel - Basalt

Thrown blended red stoneware, underglaze, ground basalt, glaze

6.5x5x3cm $40

Agatha Pupaher x Joanna Cole Arches Vessel - Basalt

Thrown blended red stoneware, underglaze, ground basalt, glaze

10x9x8cm $90

Agatha Pupaher x Joanna Cole Arches Bud Vase - Basalt

Thrown blended red stoneware, underglaze, ground basalt, glaze

10x6.5x6.5cm $90

Agatha Pupaher x Joanna Cole Arches Bowl - River Sand

Thrown blended red stoneware, underglaze, river sand, glaze

7.5x11.5x11.5cm $90

Agatha Pupaher x Joanna Cole Common Trees Dish - Copper

Carbonate Handbuilt, white stoneware,

copper carbonate, glaze 5x11x12cm

$45

Agatha Pupaher x Joanna Cole Common Trees Vessel - Cobalt Carbonate & Manganese OxideThrown blended white stoneware,

glaze, cobalt & manganese 8.5x10x7cm

$40

Agatha Pupaher x Joanna Cole Common Trees Cup - Cobalt

Carbonate & Manganese OxideThrown blended white stoneware,

glaze, cobalt & manganese 10x9x9cm

$40

Agatha Pupaher x Joanna Cole Common Trees Dish - Cobalt

CarbonateThrown blended white stoneware,

glaze, cobalt carbonate 5x9x9cm

$35

Agatha Pupaher x Joanna Cole Common Trees Bowl - Cobalt

Carbonate & Manganese Oxide Thrown white stoneware, glaze,

cobalt & manganese 9.5x12x12cm

$60

Agatha Pupaher x Joanna Cole Common Trees Vessel - Cobalt Carbonate & Manganese OxideThrown white stoneware, glaze,

cobalt & manganese 8.5x10x7cm

$40

Agatha Pupaher x Joanna Cole Arches Plate

Handbuilt Stoneware, glaze, oxide, carbonate & underglaze

24x24cm $90